Please listen to this YouTube clip on mobility. In it, Dr. Andrea Spina explains the difference between mobility and flexibility. Those of us who attended the Movement Camp in Berlin had the good fortune to learn from Dr. Spina. We attended about 8 hours of lecture of Dr. Spina and covered many topics: including mobility, anatomy, movement patterns, fibrosis and the myofascial continuum.
Here's an excerpt from his interview on flexibility versus mobility.
"Flexibility and stretching does not decrease the chance of injury. Flexibility is the ability of an articulation to achieve a range of motion passively. For example, if you are passively doing the splits or passively sitting in a stretch, just because you can passively achieve a range of motion in a joint or articulation doesn't mean it will translate into an ability to utilize that range of motion in a functional movement pattern or a particular sport oriented movement... Mobility is flexibility plus strength and control...Just holding a static position doesn't get you to a point where you are strengthening the ranges of motion."
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